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Another word for collation

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Noun
      1. A logical or natural association between two or more things; relevance of one to another; connection:
      2. The connection of people by blood or marriage; kinship.
      3. A person connected to another by blood or marriage; a relative.
      1. The act of examining or the state of being examined:
      2. A set of questions or exercises testing knowledge or skill.
      3. A formal interrogation:
      1. The state or quality of resembling, especially similarity in appearance or in external or superficial details.
      2. Something that resembles another; a likeness or semblance.
    See also:

    relationship

    comparison

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Sentence Examples

  • The text of the second was based on the fullest collation of MSS.

  • To the technical philosophers, who strictly confine themselves to the logical collation and criticism of scientific methods, he has, contrariwise, not seemed philosophic enough.

  • Other presses were at work in Italy; and, as the classics issued from Florence, Rome or Milan, Aldo took them up, bestowing in each case fresh industry upon the collation of codices and the correction of texts.

  • C. Thompson, who published their results in 1907 under the title, The Inscription of Darius the Great at Behistun, including a full illustrated account of the sculptures and the inscription, and a complete collation of the text.

  • The whole of antiquity seemed precious in the eyes of its discoverers; and even a thinker so acute as Pico di Mirandola dreamed of the possibility of extracting the essence of philosophical truth by indiscriminate collation of the most divergent doctrines.

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